Post Mortem: April 6, 2008 - April 12, 2008

We write a lot of obits here, but the endless variety of people's lives still give us a giggle (and sometimes a shudder). For example, here's a guy you wouldn't want to run into if you were in a dark alley carrying goods of uncertain origin. Chopper Howard was a...

Even the semi-cloistered Visitation Sisters of Georgetown, which I discovered when I wrote an obit for a nun who'd been there for 61 years. BTW, one of the sisters tells me that as of 6 a.m. this morning, 12 hours after this original note went up, they've had 125 hits...

The obit we ran today of Eddie Willner is the sort of story that makes even non-Jews vow "Never again." He was an amazing man and his willingness to recount a terrible moment in history serves all of society. I've used the website affiliated with the U.S. Holocaust Museum from...